Plà Castellana, Mireia (Date of defense: 2023-02-24)
Water quality monitoring during the purification and sanitation processes in Drinking Water Treatment Plants (DWTP), Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTP) and Water Reclamation Plants (ERA) is a necessary ...
Osset Álvarez, Miguel (Date of defense: 2023-03-08)
Summary Nowadays, ammonium (NH4+) is a pollutant present in all kinds of water bodies, leading to multiple environmental and health issues. The current NH4+-removing technologies are very expensive, ...
Johansson, Sara (Date of defense: 2019-04-29)
Increasing awareness on the limited nature of the raw materials for the production of inorganic fertilizer is pushing for a shift from removal to recovery of nutrients from waste streams. In municipal ...
Akaboci, Tiago Rogeiro Vitor (Date of defense: 2019-07-15)
Anammox-based processes have been commonly applied for the treatment of reject water (high nitrogen content and low C:N ratio), in the sidestream line of urban wastewater tretament plants (WWTP). However, ...
Cortés de la Fuente, Christian (Date of defense: 2002-12-17)
La implantació de Sistemes de Suport a la presa de Decisions (SSD) en Estacions Depuradores d'Aigües Residuals Urbanes (EDAR) facilita l'aplicació de tècniques més eficients basades en el coneixement ...
Vilà-Rovira, Albert (Date of defense: 2017-10-20)
This doctoral thesis has integrated biological models (activated sludge models “ASM”) with simulation tools of computational fluid dynamics “CFD”, and has applied them to the design of two advanced ...
Tarragó Abella, Elena (Date of defense: 2018-03-09)
Human population has had an impact on the natural phosphorus’ cycle, a limited resource, and the predictions show that this resource could be exhausted in 100-250 years. Therefore, the actions for the ...
Puig Broch, Sebastià (Date of defense: 2008-01-15)
In the last decades, the awareness of environmental issues has increased in society considerably. There is an increasing need to improve the effluent quality of domestic wastewater treatment processes. ...
Palma Heredia, David (Date of defense: 2021-02-08)
The objective of this thesis is to develop and apply to a real case study a method to allow easier WWTP development planning and implementation of circular economy related processes in the wastewater ...
Gabarró i Bartual, Jordi (Date of defense: 2014-07-18)
The biological treatment of industrial wastewater containing high nitrogen concentrations (>1000 mg N L-1) and low biodegradable organic matter (bCOD) such as landfill leachate is nowadays challenging. ...